ARCAS Agile Risk-based Compliance Assessment System

Ironworks' ARCAS is a user-friendly, cost-effective platform leveraging Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) 2007 for workflow, referential data, dashboards & reporting, role-based access, and document retention to manage your SOX and other compliance processes.

What’s the Problem?

As organizations respond to increasing pressure to strengthen and provide transparency into their internal controls, governance, and compliance functions in response to mandates such as Sarbanes Oxley, it becomes more difficult to efficiently organize and manage the documentation associated with these processes and gain efficiencies therein. Therefore, more organizations are looking to leverage technology to relieve the burdens associated with a manual compliance process.

What’s the Solution?

Ironworks’ ARCAS (Agile Risk-based Compliance Assessment System) offers a fully-customizable compliance solution leveraging MOSS. ARCAS includes a feature-rich framework that allows organizations to standardize documentation associated with their compliance process, establish a system of record for compliance-related control data that manages repetition of data across documents, and facilitate routine compliance processes such as control test administration, document review, and reporting.

Key Features and Benefits of ARCAS

Dashboards – Shows status of corporate processes, internal control assessments, and document approvals
Document Templates – Ensures format and content consistency across documentation
Custom Interfaces – Serves as replacements for Compliance documents that capture financially relevant processes, risk assessments, control testing documentation, and deficiency management
Referential Integrity – Eases update of control data to multiple documents via introduction of centralized database
Control/Deficiency Catalogs – Interfaces that replace traditional audit programs provide summary control and test information
Role Based Access – Places restrictions on who can open or edit information
Workflows – Facilitates documentation review and approval
Reports – Aggregate risk mapping coverage/gaps and internal control testing/assessment
Records Management – Rollover function archives current year and starts new year

If you would like to view a demo of ARCAS or find out more information about the tool, please email us at contactsales@ironworks.com.